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Pronounced: How-o-lee Laa Haa-now


Proper Hawaiian spelling: Hau'oli lā hānau

  • ' : a glottal stop, similar to the sound between the oh's in English oh-oh (pg xvii)

    • ' is actually a consonant (not simply punctuation) called the ‘okina

  • stress is placed on the long vowels
    • lā hānau



Source:
Hawaiian dictionary: Hawaiian-English, English-Hawaiian
Authors: Mary Kawena Pukui, Samuel H. Elbert.

Edition: Rev. and enl. ed.

Publisher: Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, c1986.


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